Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weiss believes that the present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity," a product of the chagrin over the Viet Nam years. The quest should be abandoned. Americans should recognize and accept the fact that much of world opinion runs against the U.S. now. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested five years ago that the U.S. should assume a role of minority opposition. Ultimately, the U.S. must appeal, as it has often done successfully, to other people's self-interests. At any rate it must put together a tight, coherent and absolutely consistent body of principles that...
September 16: Ayatollah Gomes denounces Harvard's Government department, calling it a CIA front. Student mobs invade Littauer Hall and take four professors and 39 students hostages. The militants demand the return of former Government faculty members Henry Kissinger and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Harvard...